Cento

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Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Ausoʹnius has a nuptial idyll composed from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.)

⁂ The best known are the Homērocentones (3 syl.), the Cento Virgilianusby Proba Falconia (4th century), and the Cento Nuptiālis of Ausonius. Metellus
made hymns out of the Odes of Horace by this sort of patchwork. Of modern centos, the Comédie des Comédies, made up of extracts from Balzac, is pretty well known.